Don't ever forget to lock the door of the tomb when you leave!A groggy Elena awakens in a motel room and sees Ben sleeping in a chair. She tries to sneak out and is stopped by Ben who tries to compel her, unaware that she's wearing vervain in her necklace. She tries again to escape and is stopped by Anna. Elena goes to the bathroom and finds Bonnie unconscious in the bathtub.
At the Salvatore house, Damon is reading the grimoire and Stefan tells him that Anna took Elena. Stefan ponders whether there is still some of Damon's blood in her body and Damon quips that he'll get to see her again if she dies. Stefan asks Damon what he knows and where to find Anna. Damon won't give him any information. Stefan tells Damon that this all started because of him and that he's sorry. Damon accepts and Stefan continues to beg for information. Damon tells him, "I hope Elena dies."
Elena tends to Bonnie and as she comes to, Bonnie tells Elena that Ben is a vampire. They discuss why they are there and Elena tells her that it's because of the tomb and Emily's spell book. Confused, Bonnie asks about the spell book and Elena explains that they need a witch to open the tomb and let the vampires out. Ben comes into the bathroom and Bonnie tells him that they are wasting their time because she won't help. Ben tells her that Elena is her motivation to help. Ben takes Elena into the room with Anna who comments on how Elena really is Katherine's doppelganger. She makes a few snide comments about how the Salvatore boys must be "reeling" over her. Elena asks Anna who she is and she mentions how she's practically dating Jeremy.
Jeremy is at the grill, as are Matt and Tyler. The topic of conversation is a big party being thrown in the woods near the old cemetery that night. Caroline shows up and asks Jeremy where Elena is because she's been texting her all day and she hasn't responded. Jeremy says that she went somewhere with Stefan and he hasn't seen her. They then talk about the party. Caroline gives a prepared speech to Matt about their kiss and offers him an out if he doesn't want to go any further with things. He declines to take the out.
Damon goes to Bonnie's house and her grandmother opens the door. He asks to see Bonnie and she curtly tells him "never". She calls him out for knocking on the door of a Bennett witch and asking for anything. Damon asks her what he did and she tells him that he is no friend to them. She then tells him to get off of her porch. He challenges her to step through the door and say it to him. Damon grabs his head in pain and goes to his knees as Grams walks through the door onto the porch, telling him that she's not Bonnie and he doesn't want to mess with her. She then goes back into her house.
Elena tells Anna that Bonnie won't open the tomb and asks if she really wants Katherine out that badly. Anna tells her that no one wants to see Katherine again except for Damon, the "love-struck idiot." Elena asks who she wants and Anna tells her that her mother is in the tomb and she blames Katherine and how she watched Jonathon Gilbert take her away. Elena tells her that she's sorry and Anna believes that she really is. She picks up Elena's phone and calls Stefan, telling him that Elena will not be harmed if he has the grimoire. Stefan tells her that he can get it and Anna correctly surmises that Damon has it. She tells him that she has the witch and he or Damon will meet her on the town square in 30 minutes to discuss working together.
Stefan looks at Damon and Damon tells him to grovel again. Damon tells him, "I don't care," and walks off with a satisfied smirk.
As Anna leaves the motel, she reminds Ben that compulsion won't work on them and that he will need to use violence if they try anything. Elena asks if there is anything to drink. Ben asks if she's offering herself and then tells her that there's water on the nightstand. Bonnie asks Elena if she can have a sip and throws the water on Ben, setting his arm aflame. The girls make a break for it, but Ben catches Elena.
Heading to the square, Anna runs into Jeremy. Jeremy asks her where she went the night before and she tells him that she had to go and asked Elena to tell him. He mentions that he hasn't seen her all day. Jeremy asks her to go to the big party with him and tells her that he likes her. Anna agrees to meet him there. Jeremy leaves and Anna goes to sit on a bench. Damon shows up to meet her and reminds Anna that he likes to work alone. She points out that she does, too. She tells him that he is minus a witch and she's minus a spell book. Damon tells her that Stefan will go after her if she messes with Elena. Anna makes a threat to kill her if she doesn't get what she wants. Damon asks her when she wants to do it. She makes a crack about how the Salvatore brothers are pathetic for their women and tells him to meet her at the church at sundown.
Ben asks Bonnie if witches don't have eternal life. She tells him that it's true. Ben tells her, "That sucks." The door flies opens and it's Stefan. Sunlight pours into the room, frying Ben. He dives for shade in the room while Elena and Bonnie flee. Stefan tells him to leave at sundown or he will kill him.
Back at Grams' house, Bonnie asks her how she knew where they were. Grams tells her about how emotions can fuel a witch's power. Stefan came to her for help and she used a simple locator spell. Bonnie tells her that she's sorry and Grams tells her "not as sorry as they're gonna be." Elena and Stefan enter the room and Elena asks what they will do now. Stefan tells them to stay put because he can't protect them if they leave and Grams refuses to be a prisoner in her own home. She tells them that they'll protect themselves. Elena says that they need to let Damon have Katherine back. Bonnie says that he doesn't deserve to have her back. Elena asks what other choice they have. Grams says that she'll open the tomb. They can get Katherine but they have to destroy the rest with fire.
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I totally did not expect the turn of events with Grams in this episode! I really hope that it's not too late for her because I love her character.
I really hope that they do something bigger with Matt, Caroline, and Tyler in future episodes because their storyline is just so boring to me at this point.
I felt so bad for Damon. All along, he's been told of how selfish Katherine was and now he learns that she's been "alive" and free all this time and she never went to him, knowing where he was.
What did you think of this episode?
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